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...Gipper may yet have a rabbit or two to pull from his helmet, like a treaty with the Soviet Union to reduce intermediate-range nuclear missiles. There will be vetoes, and Reagan may still have to order the fleet here and there in the Persian Gulf, acts of institutional power. But the crusade is almost winded, the caravan dispersing. The great surges of political energy, the wide-screen visions that moved America, are headed for the memoirs. "Let's face it," mused one dedicated partisan about the last year of the Reagan Revolution, "not many people are going...
...sets up an opportunity. Ronald Reagan has yet another chance to be the President he once was. But it may take more attention and energy and devotion to this country than he has ever given before. In the end it may take what life he has left. But the Gipper surely knows about such things...
Down the hall a stealthy step or two from the President's office, an aide ) wonders aloud, "Can the Gipper get back the old magic? That's the question." It happens to be the same question they ask a mile away at the Capitol end of Pennsylvania Avenue. Senators and Congressmen clear their throats, look over their shoulders and mutter that the emperor has no clothes now -- and with the threads went the magic. Nobody is quite certain of the answer, but the Washington world is clearly divided...
Enter the Gipper himself, half convalescent and half President, treading gingerly but gaining strength. There are a few more wrinkles around his eyes, and his weight is down a couple of pounds from the hospital stay. Color a bit bleached. But every vital sign normal, and the crew of doctors unanimous in their belief that he is hale physically. Being President actually prolongs a man's life, statistics suggest. "The doctors said he had the insides of a 50- year-old, and I intend to keep him that way," says Nancy Reagan...
...Subcommittee gives him a C-minus for his sophomore year. Notes an unimpressed Mary Futrell, president of the National Education Association: "He seems more interested in sparring with us than in sitting down and solving problems." But Old Footballer Bennett appears to disdain report cards from anyone but the Gipper himself. "I have a lot of ideas for 1987," he told Reagan when the President called him on Christmas Eve. "We have the ball and we are going to run with it." Responded the boss: "I know you will...